Submitted 1 year ago by ghostermonster@discuss.tchncs.de to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I am looking for an IP PoE camera. The thing is, it must work out of the box with something like ONVIF or at least give video stream right away.
I don’t want to run any proprietary apps on my devices, including JavaScript web apps hosted by the camera.
Do you know of any that can be just plugged to the network (would run it on VLAN) and automagically appear on Home Assistant, iSpy or Frigate?
Reolink ist the way to go. I think only the battery powered ones don’t have onvif. Otherwise the poe cameras all support onvif and are generally of very good quality. Plug it in and of you go.
ONVIF needs a user with username and password, you will need at least a web interface to add it to the camera. What’s the problem with a web app hosted by the camera?
None that I know of, at minimum you need to login to the web interface on the camera to set up a user/pass for ONVIF.
I use tp-link Tapo cameras and they work great! Yes you have to use there app to see them up the first time and provide username and pass for rtsp feed but after that toss them in your NVR software and boom good to go!
Woth Hikvision you can do the setup of the camera (user,pass,stream settings etc) via a web UI. From there you can use those settings in a camera rtsp sensor in HA. Not sure if this is still not what you wanted. It supports ONVOF too.
Hikvision also has some serious baggage from the Chinese govt. Hanwha is really good stuff, South Korean, a spin off from Samsung.
None IIRC, are you not able to spin up a VM on the same VLAN as the cameras to set them up, and nuke the VM once setup complete?
You may have better luck setting up an airgapped NVR, using USB webcams instead, or just DIYing an IP camera using an SBC
I purchase cheap Anran branded IP cameras. So far they’ve been meh, but they don’t require application to set up. They do support ONVIF but you have to configure it through web interface. For me that’s good enough. Configure once, ban internet access since no Chinese stuff is ever getting access to internet from my network.
Whether they will work with mentioned software, I have no idea. I run my own form of software for security cameras by basically implementing FTP server, where most recent events are stored in Redis and hi resolution image is stored elsewhere on hard disk.
Honestly I went down this same route and couldn’t find anything worth doing. I was lucky enough to be running new cables so I used traditional CCTV cables along with the POE runs and ended up with a non IP traditional CCTV system. The NVR lives in a bubble network where the insecure software can never communicate out to the world. To view the live feeds my management server is the only location that can open its web interface. The recording and encoding are done on the device itself and there is an FTP service my management server on schedule pulls recordings from and stores elsewhere. I could have used a vlan for the IPCameras but my setup is far far cheaper.
ghostface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have reolink cameras and they were pretty plug n play.
HA picked up the reolinks once connected, but integration with frigate requires some setup. The frigate HA integration works very well.
Oh and for notifications to work well… Or how you expected to work. Having the mqtt server setup will help as well.